at least she didnt write "the affect of which"
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On Thu, December 10, 2009 08:05, Chris Jones wrote:
> It is the missing '... so the novel becomes the possessive active agent
> over receptive slavish reader position...
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:36 +1100, Max Richards wrote:
>
>> I read in a bookshop newsletter about
>>
>>
>> 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
>>
>>
>> Is this 'thats' a new word?
>>
>>
>> The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come
>> up with the old 'effect of which'.
>>
>> (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin
>> Quarterly, and a
>> published novelist)
>
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Goldsmiths, University of London
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